I am a fourth year student in National University of Singapore, with major in Statistics and Minor in Financial Mathematics. I am expected to graduate in May 2009 with 2nd upper honors degree.
Besides study, I joined various Co-Curricular Activities to enrich my University life. I lived in NUS Temasek Hall for 3 years, so I joined several hall activities. I was the vice head of the photography committee in NUS Temasek Hall, where I learned semi-professional photography and photo shop skills. I joined Chinese Production Committee and played as 2nd main character in the annual Chinese show. Besides Hall activities, I also joined school activities. I was the Chairperson of IEEE NUS Student Branch Membership Sub-committee. And I volunteered to help at NUS Career Centre as a Career Guide.
From these activities, I gained leadership skill, organizing skill, inter personal communication skill and became a good team player. I do believe these experience will benefit me in my work in the future.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Reflecting on the Research Project Experience
I have just finished the final edit of the findings and interpretation part of our report. As I read through the sentences, the whole process of report writing came up to my mind. It was not easy to propose, conduct survey, analyze data and write a report in 3 weeks time, but three of us worked together and made it happened! I was proud to tell that I did enjoy a positive learning experience, in terms of report writing, group communication and team work.
Report writing skill was one of the most significant things I learnt from this project. From setting objective and hypothesis to writing conclusion and explanation, as well as following the APA format of the report, this project taught us everything. I believed it would benefit us through our work and study in the further. Besides, effective group communication as a whole was another aspect of learning in this project. It did not only contain sharing information with others, but effective listening to group members’ opinions and comments. Most important, when agreement couldn’t be achieved by discussion, it required us to submit to the group leader’s decision and try our best to support it. Here, team work played a crucial part. We split the report into three parts, and each of us took charge of one part. For each part, we discussed the idea together and the person in charge recorded it down and drafted it in the report. After this, we worked in a team to edit and finalize the draft. In this way, we concerned every member’s opinion by discussing the report in a group, and saved time and troubles in writing report by asking one member to draft each part.
Since group communication as a whole and team work contributed to the success in our project, we would extend them to our oral presentation. In contrast, we would try to avoid the weak area in communication encountered in this project. For example, during discussion, we focused too much on details but lost the idea in general. This not only wasted our time but misled us from the project. We believed that after avoiding this, we would achieve a success in oral presentation.
Report writing skill was one of the most significant things I learnt from this project. From setting objective and hypothesis to writing conclusion and explanation, as well as following the APA format of the report, this project taught us everything. I believed it would benefit us through our work and study in the further. Besides, effective group communication as a whole was another aspect of learning in this project. It did not only contain sharing information with others, but effective listening to group members’ opinions and comments. Most important, when agreement couldn’t be achieved by discussion, it required us to submit to the group leader’s decision and try our best to support it. Here, team work played a crucial part. We split the report into three parts, and each of us took charge of one part. For each part, we discussed the idea together and the person in charge recorded it down and drafted it in the report. After this, we worked in a team to edit and finalize the draft. In this way, we concerned every member’s opinion by discussing the report in a group, and saved time and troubles in writing report by asking one member to draft each part.
Since group communication as a whole and team work contributed to the success in our project, we would extend them to our oral presentation. In contrast, we would try to avoid the weak area in communication encountered in this project. For example, during discussion, we focused too much on details but lost the idea in general. This not only wasted our time but misled us from the project. We believed that after avoiding this, we would achieve a success in oral presentation.
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